Evolving infinitely from ground zero

"Junior Zi Chen, teach him a lesson! Senior sister really hates those guys who like to moral-bind others!"

"Junior Zi Chen, I'll be cheering you on loudly!"

"Junior Zi Chen, go for it, I'll take some great photos for you!"

"..."

As Lin Zichen stepped up to fight, the crowd instantly burst into excited chatter.

Most of it came from the voices of Lin Zichen's little fangirls.

Hearing these overwhelmingly supportive voices, Zhang Kai felt no inner turmoil, and even wanted to laugh.

Do you all think I'm some brainless young fool?

Wrong! Dead wrong!

I am dumb like a fox!

You're on the third level, thinking I'm on the first, but in fact, I'm on the fifth!

I am taking advantage of this talented junior's undeveloped stage, quickly overpowering him while still the bigger one, to leave an extremely glorious record in my martial arts career!

Zhang Kai had noticed Lin Zichen's leap-ahead martial arts talent over the past month.

He knew very clearly that, given another half year, no one in the team would be a match for Lin Zichen.

Therefore, he had to take advantage of Lin Zichen's recent start and immature strength, and openly spar with him to crush him completely.

That way, the higher Lin Zichen's martial arts achievements grew, the more he could boast about it.

Meet someone and brag, "Back in the day, I was the man who thrashed Genius Lin on the Martial Stage!"

Lin Zichen had no idea of the drama going on in Zhang Kai's head.

With a thought, he closed the text information in the air, handed back the clothes to Shen Qinghan, and walked towards the Martial Stage saying:

"It's getting late. I still need to go home for dinner, so let's make this quick."

"Come on!"

Zhang Kai responded, and likewise walked towards the Martial Stage.

Guo Xiangyuan, acting as the coach, quickly followed the two towards the Martial Stage as well.

...

On the Martial Stage.

After both had taken their positions, Guo Xiangyuan said, "I will be the referee for this spar. Remember, friendship first, competition second. Don't hurt the harmony."

Lin Zichen: "Okay, understood coach."

Zhang Kai didn't respond but shouted towards Li Shutong in the audience, "Little Li, record our spar!"

He wanted to keep a video record of today's achievement, so when Lin Zichen really made something of himself in the future, he could bring it out and brag spectacularly.

"Sure." Li Shutong, being a member of the Martial Arts Team, gave him an ok gesture, then took out his phone and started recording the Martial Stage.

Shen Qinghan, also among the audience, took out her phone to record as well. Differently from Zhang Kai, she knew how strong Lin Zichen was; her recording was to document his victorious process.

"Are you both ready?"

On the Martial Stage, Guo Xiangyuan looked at the two sparring teammates and asked.

Lin Zichen: "Ready."

Zhang Kai: "We can start now, coach."

Seeing them both ready, Guo Xiangyuan moved to the edge of the Martial Stage, raised his right hand high, and then swung it down forcefully, declaring:

"The spar officially begins!"

As his words fell, neither of them made a move right away.

Zhang Kai, feeling sure of his victory, arrogantly boasted to Lin Zichen:

"Junior, you've been in the team for just over a month, while I've been here for nearly two years. So, I'll let you have three free moves to prevent you from saying later that I bullied the younger."

"Sure."

Lin Zichen responded curtly and immediately used Blink Step to rush forward, getting close to Zhang Kai in an instant and kicking him off the Martial Stage.

Zhang Kai: "???"

The six teammates below: "Holy shit!"

Guo Xiangyuan was dumbstruck.

The Fresh Milk Senior Sister screamed, "Ahhh! Junior Zi Chen, you're too awesome, you've captured senior sister's soul!"

The other little fangirls also squealed their infatuations.

...

Atop the Martial Stage.

Lin Zichen paid no heed to the clamor below him—his attention was wholly captured by the floating text in the void.

[You have defeated a rival and successfully captivated a member of the opposite sex, earning the right to first choice in mating]

[Rivals eliminated: 1/1000]

999 more rivals to eliminate…

Thinking this, Lin Zichen put away the text and looked down at the six other teammates, asking:

"The six of you, do you want to spar with me as well?"

"..."

However, no one responded to him.

Everyone was still in shock and hadn't recuperated from the scene that had just unfolded.

The first to snap out of it was Zhang Kai, whom he had just kicked off the Martial Stage.

At the moment, Zhang Kai was enduring the pain emanating from his abdomen, struggling to get up from the ground to return to the Martial Stage, stubbornly insisting, "That didn't count, I wasn't ready yet. Let's go again!"

Guo Xiangyuan slowly came back to his senses at the sound of this and frowned at Zhang Kai, saying somewhat irritably, "Zhang Kai, you need to accept a loss when you've wagered. Don't throw away your martial spirit just because you've lost."

Zhang Kai opened his mouth to argue, but Guo Xiangyuan didn't give him the chance. The next second, he turned to Li Shutong below the stage and shouted, "Little Li, get up here and spar with Zi Chen."

"Oh, oh, alright!" Li Shutong said as he put down his phone, and while answering, he stepped onto the Martial Stage.

...

In the following time.

Lin Zichen sparred with all his teammates on the team and, as expected, won every time.

However, to appear as though his strength was still within a normal range, he did not instantly defeat his opponents as he had with Zhang Kai.

Instead, he circled around for a while, exchanging a few moves before beating them.

As a result, the exaggerated display of strength he'd shown when he instantly defeated Zhang Kai could be explained away, avoiding many unnecessary problems.

Everyone assumed that Zhang Kai was defeated so quickly purely because he was arrogant and careless, not because Lin Zichen truly had the strength to defeat him instantly.

"Genius, Zi Chen, you are truly a genius!"

"You've only joined the Martial Arts Team for just over a month, and you've already become the ace of the team!"

"In this year's district martial arts competition, our Shanhai High School will surely beat the other nine schools and take first place!"

Guo Xiangyuan patted Lin Zichen on the shoulder with a smile so wide his mouth wouldn't close.

At the same time, Zhang Kai, who had initially refused to accept Lin Zichen's victory, thinking that he had lost the match due to his own carelessness, now thoroughly acknowledged his defeat.

Zhang Kai had watched all of Lin Zichen's sparring matches with the rest of the team members seriously and realized that he was indeed no match for Lin Zichen; he had no grounds to argue.

"Zi Chen, I, Zhang Kai, admit my loss willingly. From now on, even if you were to shit on my head, I wouldn't complain!"

Zhang Kai looked at Lin Zichen, loudly proclaiming in a resounding voice, as if taking an oath.

He thought such a gesture looked very cool—admitting defeat graciously and sticking to his word would surely win the favor of the girls.

However, the surrounding girls, upon hearing him crudely mention "shit," felt disgusted by his vulgarity and did not even want to give him a second glance.

Lin Zichen had no time to deal with Zhang Kai and was instead frowning at the text in the void.

[Achievement: In official contests, eliminate 1000 different rivals using the most primitive biological means]

[Reward: Acquire the Biometric Attributes—Survival of the Fittest]

[Rivals eliminated: 1/1000]

Only when he defeated Zhang Kai did he make a bit of progress; defeating the other six teammates didn't count.

After careful consideration, Lin Zichen quickly deduced a conclusion based on the previous messages that appeared when he defeated Zhang Kai.

Not every fight counts towards the achievement progress, it must involve a conflict of interest, a competitive nature, to advance.

The initial spar with Zhang Kai was judged as a primeval battle for mating rights.

"It seems that if I want to complete this achievement, I'll need to participate in more competitions in the future."

Lin Zichen murmured internally.

Each contest in a competition is filled with rivalry.

There's the competition for ranking.

There's the competition for prize money.

Therefore, if he could defeat his rivals in those competitions, he would certainly make progress in the achievement task.

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PS: Holding out my bowl, asking for Monthly Passes and recommendation tickets!